> Most with absolutely zero data to back up that it provides any sort of useful improvements While it depends on a lot of factors, generally speaking minificat

> Most with absolutely zero data to back up that it provides any sort of useful improvements While it depends on a lot of factors, generally speaking minification is a good thing especially for mobile. There's really no downside in doing it (see next point). > justify the difficulties it introduces in debugging What difficulties? You should use a build process that minifies for your production site but not for testing. If you need to debug the live, minified files you can use source maps[1]. 1: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...